I decided around 11:30 last night that I needed to look at me recent work and sort of figure out what it is that I'm either going to do--or not going to do with it. Now mind you, I've got my computer so bogged down with images and half-made pieces that it isn't the most efficient machine. My every attempt at cleaning it up and throwing away things to free up space has resulted in 'finding little gems' that I didn't see had potential before and I end up spending more hours eliminating even more space on my hard-drive instead of what I had intended. So as I was looking at my folder of recent work--aptly titled 'Untitled-1' I was planning on just getting rid of 90% of it. In it I have photographs of folded up pieces of paper with notes on them, self portraits, photographs of apples and sleeves of crackers and images of paint--details shots of palates and close-ups of paintings. The next thing I'm doing is putting together the piece above. For some reason I got to thinking about Clyfford Still--though I wasn't sure why--this piece shares little with Still--perhaps some of the vertical movement reminded me of some of Still's work in the 50's. There was work that I was thinking of also but couldn't remember the artist and still can't place it this morning. It'll probably haunt me all day. One of the problems with separating yourself from the world, as I've tried to do a little so that I could re-focus on my core, is that your mind sort of goes a little numb to the details and memories. My memories of names and words seem to be fading more and more--though I still vividly remember images. It might get down to a discussion I recently had about photo credit placement on multi-media pieces in the media. I said that who did the piece isn't information that is directly needed to be known by our readers/viewers and therefore shouldn't be a part of the presentation. I embed that info in the pieces I do so they can be found, but I don't feel that including my name next to the title or even at the end(though the end is better than the beginning) is benefitting the story - in fact I argue that it gets in the way. If a viewer reads the title and done by--they pause and think if they know that person and therefore break from their involvement with the piece. So I think I remember images because the image is ultimately what has spoken to me--the artist actually becomes trivia. But I still wish I could remember the artists name so I could look him or her up---I think the artist was in the Gablik book book--I'll look at that today.Until then--this was something I made while attempting to re-evaluate yet again! By Richard Sayer